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The Dish - August 2024

We’re excited to bring you the August edition of our DSxHE newsletter. Remember that feeling of a warm summer breeze that whispers new possibilities? That’s exactly the vibe we’re channeling this month. This issue is packed with inspiring blog posts, upcoming events, job & funding opportunities you won’t want to miss. Perhaps you're also considering contributing to one of our themes, exploring new collaborations, or writing a blog to share on our website. There’s something for everyone!

 

Here are some exciting updates and events lined up just for you this month:

We need your input!! Help us shape the future of DSxHE by completing our Community Survey. It's a quick check-in to understand your experiences, needs, and ideas. Your feedback is invaluable in guiding our efforts to make a difference. Take about 3 minutes to share your thoughts with us.

 

Grab a cool drink, get comfy, and dive into all the news, highlights, and opportunities we have in store. You can also add your own events, publications, thoughts & plugs to our Slack workspace.

 


News from DSxHE


Have you engaged with any of our themes yet? You can find out more about their visions, what they're planning & most importantly how you can become involved through the links below. Each theme will be launching over the coming weeks so stay tuned for updates on events & activities over on Slack.


Social Justice - Join us for our DSxHE Download takeover on the 9th July when we'll discuss this paper on social justice & AI. Communicate For Health Justice (CFHJ) is interested to know how is your industry communicating for (global) health justice? Share your perspective by taking part in the CFHJ survey.


Statistical Methods - Come along to our monthly meet-ups! Almost 100 tickets were snapped up for last month's event. Everyone is welcome: expect fascinating talks, in-depth discussions, & all-round interesting chat on everything to do with statistical methods & health equity.


Clinical Trials - this theme is planning events and activities to establish partnerships & build consensus to ensure that medicines are both safe & effective for all of us. If that sounds interesting to you, find us at #theme-clinical-trials on Slack!


Participatory Research - The recording of the June Participatory Research meeting is available now, you can watch it here. Watch the recording of the just-ended HACA Conference where our theme leads joined the talk and panel discussion. Join our Slack channel to learn more about how you can apply participatory research in your work and find like-minded collaborators and peers.


Mental Health - we're aiming to equip the community to harness the potential of data science to improve our understanding of mental health & promote mental health equity. At the moment we're exploring the needs and interests of people with lived experience of mental health concerns and NHS staff providing services. If you are interested in participating, follow this link. We're also planning a summer of webinars and other activities - find us on our Slack channel to get involved.



 



Join us for The Download, our monthly informal, conversational and informative online Meetups!

 

These are open to anyone in the world, no matter what your level of experience and background. They are really just an opportunity to meet fellow DSxHE-ers and learn a few new things :)

 

Roll up, roll up! This month we are excited to introduce our speaker Zainab Garba-Sani to discuss the A.C.C.E.S.S. AI Model.  The Model was developed to engage multi-stakeholders to collectively engage communities, identify barriers to AI implementation, and uncover opportunities to use AI to advance health equity.

 

We look forward to seeing you there on Tuesday 13th August at 6 pm (BST).  



"Using AI for Community-Led Pandemic Decision Making

 and to help Solve Long COVID"

by Cat Fraser of Co-EQ


Join us for our September Download & let's chat.

 Tuesday 10th September at 6 pm (BST).  





 


Our latest blog post delves into harnessing technology and community to transform preventative health. By leveraging cutting-edge tools like wearables and health apps, fostering supportive community environments, and integrating physical, mental, and social well-being, we aim to empower individuals and address health inequalities.

 

It highlights the work of the Community Diamond Innovation Network (CDIN) dedicated to interdisciplinary collaboration, ensuring that our initiatives are scalable and impactful, paving the way for healthier, more connected communities.

 

You can submit your blog article to info.dsxhe@gmail.com

Join us in this effort to democratize knowledge and drive health equity forward!



 

The Digest


Want to see all the articles, podcasts, papers, blogs, videos, funding calls, events and training opportunities that have been shared across the DSxHE Slack workspace?


 

 

Nature Medicine

 

As artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly approaches human-level performance in medical imaging, it must not exacerbate or propagate healthcare disparities. Previous research established AI’s capacity to infer demographic data from chest X-rays, leading to a key concern: do models using demographic shortcuts have unfair predictions across subpopulations?  In this study, the authors conducted a thorough investigation into the extent to which medical AI uses demographic encodings, focusing on potential fairness discrepancies within both in-distribution training sets and external test sets. Read More here.




 

NHS Education for Scotland

 

The Hub has been developed to make it easier to find online resources that enable the development of digital and data skills across the health and social care workforce. The Hub hosts free resources and learning activities provided by a range of organisations for staff and volunteers across the NHS, health and social care partnerships, local authorities, social care, social work, care providers, housing, and third and independent sectors, to ensure everyone is supported to build the digital and data skills required to do their job and develop their career. You can access it here.



 

News from the Community

Upcoming events

Here's a few external events coming up in the next month that might float your boat. If there's an event you'd like to highlight on a future edition of this newsletter, then post it on #events on our Slack workspace or get in touch.


  

 

Job opportunities

Looking for your next career move or project? We'll bring you a rundown of new roles and opportunities to further health equity through data science. If you're looking to find the next bright star in your team, share your advert with the community on Slack: 

  


 

Funding opportunities &

partnering with DSxHE

Keep up with the latest funding opportunities across on Slack. Want to talk through your application or find partners? DSxHE has partnered on a number of research projects to support design and delivery and can offer your project support too, so get in touch with us on the Funding channel or contact Eunice for more.


Mental Health Award: Accelerating scalable digital mental health interventions. This call will fund research to evaluate and further develop scalable digital interventions to advance early intervention in depression, anxiety and psychosis. Teams must include the research expertise required to drive the proposed research, an organisation which can take the intervention to scale (whether a company or not-for-profit) and lived experience experts. Deadline for submissions: 12 September 2024


 

That's all folks!

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